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Glad to have found College Hills Honda for genuine accessories

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Saved so much money buying mud flaps, all weather mats, cargo tray, seat back protectors, and a cargo cover from College Hills Honda for my '23 CR-V Hybrid. Not sure why they're able to sell genuine Honda parts at such reduced prices compared to my local dealers, but much like with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, I don't need to know how they work their magic. Just glad they do. When a dealer wanted to charge close to $285 for the mud flaps, and installing them, I laughed - four pieces of plastic and some self tapping screws! Someone then steered me toward CHH. Shipping isn't cheap, but still comes out much cheaper than local dealers' prices. Easy self installs for the mud flaps, seat back protectors and cargo cover btw. (Mats too, but duh.)
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I alternate between them and Bernardi. Both great OEM places. Check them for good prices on a Honda Care warranty as well.
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My only gripe with CHH is they flat out refuse to ship overseas. Not sure if their policy has changed since the last time I enquired...
Saved so much money buying mud flaps, all weather mats, cargo tray, seat back protectors, and a cargo cover from College Hills Honda for my '23 CR-V Hybrid. Not sure why they're able to sell genuine Honda parts at such reduced prices compared to my local dealers, but much like with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, I don't need to know how they work their magic. Just glad they do. When a dealer wanted to charge close to $285 for the mud flaps, and installing them, I laughed - four pieces of plastic and some self tapping screws! Someone then steered me toward CHH. Shipping isn't cheap, but still comes out much cheaper than local dealers' prices. Easy self installs for the mud flaps, seat back protectors and cargo cover btw. (Mats too, but duh.)

I've been buying parts from them for about 20 years or so
SOME local dealers will price match them but very rare especially now.

Best deal they ever had was they bought all of the Mugen Civic wheel stock from Honda back in 2007 and sold them as SETS SHIPPED for like $700 lol Steal of the Century
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My only gripe with CHH is they flat out refuse to ship overseas. Not sure if their policy has changed since the last time I enquired...
You can sign up for a shipping proxy service they give you a us address then they reship to you but more $$
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+1 for Bernardi. College Hills has great price but with shipping, price increases significantly. Bernardi has free shipping which comes out cheaper for me.
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Another fan of CHH. Had a Homelink mirror on backorder from another Honda online dealer who sent me an email the mirror was back in stock but needed verbal authorization to charge my credit card on file because the order was more than 30 days old. Called the first dealer 4 times and left a voice mail but no return call over 3 hours later. Decided to order the mirror from College Hill Honda. They shipped it the same day before the other dealer even returned my call and I received the part 2 days later.
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+1 for Bernardi. College Hills has great price but with shipping, price increases significantly. Bernardi has free shipping which comes out cheaper for me.
Shipping is the big variable depending on where you live. Another place to check is hondacarparts.com in Northampton, MA. Best overall price for me. Nice to have all these options.
My only gripe with CHH is they flat out refuse to ship overseas. Not sure if their policy has changed since the last time I enquired...
That may be a hard restriction by Honda. ie: dealers can only sell in the nation or region they sell in. Which kind of makes sense given components sometimes are different between regions.
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Shipping is the big variable depending on where you live. Another place to check is hondacarparts.com in Northampton, MA. Best overall price for me. Nice to have all these options.
Just a note here:
For members who have an Amazon Prime account in the US, note that some dealers are also selling online there as well. And prime comes with free shipping 2 day shipping, unless the merchant is doing sales and fulfillment (most let Amazon do the fulfillment) I know the local dealer I buy from sells on Amazon, and generally at 20-25% off of OEM list.
Not sure why they're able to sell genuine Honda parts at such reduced prices compared to my local dealers, but much like with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, I don't need to know how they work their magic. Just glad they do. When a dealer wanted to charge close to $285 for the mud flaps, and installing them, I laughed - four pieces of plastic and some self tapping screws! Someone then steered me toward CHH. Shipping isn't cheap, but still comes out much cheaper than local dealers' prices. Easy self installs for the mud flaps, seat back protectors and cargo cover btw. (Mats too, but duh.)
For accessories like this, it's the labor is often half the cost, sometimes even dominates the cost. What did they want for just the flaps? I see them commonly listed online at various places for around $50-$70, though it looks like the ones for gen6 are about $20 more or so (still over priced, but it is a specialty fit item).

For CCH, it's good additional business for them I am sure. And they need to discount from OEM list to get the volume of sales they seek. This shows the power of selling in volume, online, parts only VS trying to follow the traditional dealer model of a bundled buy+install at their shop.

Bascially CCH and a few other dealers have setup shop online to sell OEM parts and HondaCare online at substantial discounts, because it is a simple digital transaction + fulfillment and they don't need to charge full OEM prices. This aspect of CCH business probably pays for all the overhead of their entire parts department, and likely makes it easier for them to also carry local inventory, rather than the more usual with Honda dealers now days of not holding much inventory, and instead ordering from a Honda local warehouse with overnight delivery and then hand off to a buyer at the parts counter.
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Somebody in a previous post suggested hondapartshq.com. I've checked around and although they charge shipping, they are the cheapest. Does anyone else have any experience with hondapartshq?
Someone in another thread mentioned Genuine OEM Honda Parts Dealer USA- BK Honda Parts | BKHonda (IL) and I just ordered crossbars for 2023 hybrid. Best price I could find anywhere with very low shipping cost. $184.80 plus 12.97 shipping - 197.77 to upstate NY. Ordered Sun, received Thurs. Perfect!
Just grabbed my first crv ever also. 2023 hybrid sport touring. Loving it so far, any recommendations on where to get all weather floor mats ?
Bernardiparts.com should be Plan A for you, Moe1028. If they are out of stock, then try collegehillshonda.com.

Bernardi is less expensive because they ship for free on orders of at least $75.

You ought to be able to buy first row and second row all weather floor mats from Bernardi for $170 total. Add an extra $110 if you want a cargo liner behind the 2nd row.
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